The Price Isn’t Right to Invest in Natural Gas—Yet

Gas futures have spent more time anchored under $2 than at any stretch in the past 17 years. But it’s not a buy-low opportunity.

By

Timothy Puko

April 16, 2016

Bloomberg Commodity Index

Natural-gas futures have spent more time anchored under $2 this year than at any stretch in the past 17 years. Producers are slashing budgets and going under. It might look like a classic buy-low opportunity in a market about to rebalance. But it isn’t—at least for now.